Murray Bartlett of ‘The White Lotus’ Shucks His Oyster
The New York Times
The Australian actor is hitting his stride at 50.
With a raised eyebrow and the kind of smile that makes his fans swoon, the actor Murray Bartlett tipped his head back and slurped a freshly shucked oyster.
This was on a gleaming morning just before Thanksgiving at Marlow & Sons, the restaurant that Mr. Bartlett, 50, frequented when he lived in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. A star of the HBO dramedies “The White Lotus” and “Looking,” and the Netflix revival of “Tales of the City,” he moved to Provincetown, Mass., two years ago. But he still stops in whenever he can.
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